1:20 p.m. ET: Trayvon Martin's mother Sybrina Fulton, who said on the "Today" show early Thursday that she believed Zimmerman's fatal shooting of her son was an "accident," has retracted those comments.

1:20 p.m. ET: Trayvon Martin's mother Sybrina Fulton, who said on the "Today" show early Thursday that she believed Zimmerman's fatal shooting of her son was an "accident," has retracted those comments.

“On March 24, Mikhail Muhammad, leader of the New Black Panther Party, offered a $10,000 bounty for the ‘capture’ of George Zimmerman, who shot and killed Trayvon Martin. The Panthers distributed wanted posters, calling him a ‘child killer’ and offering the bounty ‘dead or alive.’ Muhammad warned that Mr. Zimmerman ‘should be fearful for his life.’”

Continued the editorial, “These acts were almost certainly criminal. Florida Code 787.01 makes it a felony to threaten someone or abduct them with the intent to terrorize. Florida Code 777.04 further criminalizes solicitation which ‘commands, encourages, hires or requests another person’ to engage in criminal activity such as kidnapping.”

1:20 p.m. ET: Trayvon Martin's mother Sybrina Fulton, who said on the "Today" show early Thursday that she believed Zimmerman's fatal shooting of her son was an "accident," has retracted those comments.

hmmmm er uh.

A gaffe in the court of public opinion; meaningless in a court of law.

What makes you so sure it was purely a gaffe. Perhaps she was speaking from her heart? Until of course the legal experts told her it wasn't ok to speak from her heart in the future.

Do you know how our legal system works? The case is going to be decided on the evidence presented IN THE COURT ROOM, not on the musings of some person, even if she is his mom. She doesn't have the first clue as to what kind of evidence or case the prosecution even has.

What makes you so sure it was purely a gaffe. Perhaps she was speaking from her heart? Until of course the legal experts told her it wasn't ok to speak from her heart in the future.

What would it even matter what her "heart" says. She wasn't there and hasn't spoken to anyone that was, and likely doesn't know the evidence any more than what we do. Plus, nobody thinks it was an "accident". That's not even Zimmerman's defense. If the shooting was an accident that would be something like the gun going off inadvertantly. Nobody thinks that happened. Obviously what she meant was that it was an "accident" that they even crossed paths that night, although accident obviously isn't the proper term. She just misspoke. It happens. Again, in the end, it's meaningless. Will never become evidence in any fashion.

Do you know how our legal system works? The case is going to be decided on the evidence presented IN THE COURT ROOM, not on the musings of some person, even if she is his mom. She doesn't have the first clue as to what kind of evidence or case the prosecution even has.

One day after George Zimmerman was charged with second-degree murder, Trayvon Martin's mother said she believes her son's killing was an “accident.”

"I believe that it just got out of control," Sybrina Fulton told NBC's "Today" show on Thursday. "And [Zimmerman] couldn't turn the clock back."

Fulton told host Ann Curry she wanted Zimmerman to apologize for fatally shooting her son, and ticked off a list of questions she wished she could ask the 28-year-old volunteer watchman.

"I would ask him, did he know that [Trayvon] was a minor, that he was a teenager, that he did not have a weapon," Fulton said.

"I would ask him that I understand his family is hurting, but think about our family that lost our teenage son," she said, her voice quaking with emotion.

"I'm sure his parents can pick up the phone to call him, but we can't pick up the phone to call Trayvon anymore."

Later on Thursday, Fulton released a statement to MSNBC saying, "in NO way did I mean the shooting was an accident."

“We believe that George Zimmerman stalked my son and murdered him in cold blood. The 'accident' I was referring to was the fact that George Zimmerman and my son ever crossed paths. It was an accidental encounter,” Fulton's statement said.

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